F4F | David Crank Defeating Your Goliath(s)

Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God. Now if you've ever been told by a pastor that the story of David and Goliath is all about you, you know, stepping onto the battlefield, having audacious faith, taking your five smooth stones and defeating your

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Yeah, that's not what the story of David and Goliath is all about. Now if you haven't figured it out, our series titled

A Pirate Christian's Guide to the Old Testament has been teaching us that the scriptures are about Jesus.

They are types and shadows pointing to Christ. The salvation of the

Lord won for us. The story of David and Goliath is no different. In fact, what we're gonna do, although this is a

Fighting for the Faith segment, we're gonna put this in the playlist titled A Pirate Christian's Guide to the

Old Testament, but rather than just do pure teaching on this particular one, we're gonna head over to Faith Church St.

Louis, David Crank's and Nicole Crank's church. I'm not sure what to call that, but they recently did a revival, full -blown revival.

It looked more like Glory of Zion to me than anything else, and while they were doing their revival thingy,

David Crank invoked the story of David and Goliath, and he twisted it up so bad that we thought we would use that as just an example, because I could go to many.

This is just an example of how not to handle this text. That's the best way I could put it.

So let's get to it. Let's first take a look at what not to do with this text.

This is David Crank and the revival band over at Faith Church St.

Louis. I backed it up just a little bit for context's sake. I don't think you'll thank me later, but I think you get the point.

Let's take a listen. Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! My brain is already beaten into a pulp, and I think that's actually the purpose of that.

TRUMPHTERS now, when David David - every time

David would see the Arc of the Lord coming to town he begin to dance around a little crazy, but there was one particular day after he had killed

Goliath many of you today are facing a Goliath called Cancer. the Lord says All right, so there it is many of you are facing a

Goliath called cancer The story of David and Goliath has nothing, and I mean nothing whatsoever, to do with whether or not you've been diagnosed with cancer.

And to say that, just to invoke the story of David and Goliath, and for those who have cancer to sit there and go, yeah, this is all about you overcoming your

Goliath of cancer. If you have the type of cancer that will lead to your demise, and God does not choose to miraculously heal you, then as you get closer and closer to the inevitable, your faith is going to falter.

Because, I mean, after all, David Crank, their pastor, told them that God was giving people the ability to overcome and defeat their

Goliath called cancer. However, that's not what the story of David and Goliath is about at all.

It's like not even close. But let me back this up so you can hear it again. We begin to dance around a little crazy, but there was one particular day after he had killed

Goliath. Many of you today are facing a Goliath called cancer. The Lord says, I'm delivering terminal diseases right now, right here.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Proof, please. Yeah, you'll note that the series we have started but haven't even come close to finishing.

In fact, we need to get a second installment out. It has to do with ethical practices within the charismatic movement.

Simply saying, the Lord has told me, oh, he's delivering people from the Goliath of cancer here, right here, right now, tonight, and people go, woo -hoo, yay!

Yeah, talk is cheap. Talk is really, really cheap. I'd like to meet the people who were delivered of terminal cancer just last week at Faith Church St.

Louis, you know? I just heard him say, finish the David story, but first tell them what I told you to tell them a while ago.

So, he's in direct communication with God, having some kind of a dialogue during the revival night there at Faith Church St.

Louis, and God said, hey, listen, you forgot to finish the story I told you to tell people. Okay.

All right. I would note that usually if you're hearing voices in your head, there are certain types of psych professionals that you probably should be seeing.

I forgot to tell you what he told me to tell you a while ago. He said, the people that come to church here have a higher probability because they hear the word.

Oh, so the people who go to Faith Church St. Louis, they have a higher probability of miracles and supernatural encounters and stuff.

So, yeah, if you attend just an ordinary church where the pastor faithfully exegetes the

Bible and preaches the word, you are less likely to have miraculous things happen to you. Thus, saith the

Lord. Uh -huh. He said this to me, this is the part you've got to hear. He said, let them that have ears, let them hear.

Jesus said that in his earthly ministries to record it for us in the gospels. He said, it is my will.

And we know what that means to hear the word of the Lord, but there's a law of double reference there. And he said, there's going to be a strong anointing on this church and there has been, but it's going to get stronger and everybody who has physical ears, it is my will for them to hear.

I did not put appendages on the side of your head not to hear. So is, is

God telling the people off there? You know, I didn't put physical appendages on the sides of your head for you not to hear.

Thus, saith the Lord. That's that's, that's weird that God would talk that way to his people.

Just strange. Really weird. Oh, for he that hath ears, let him hear, hear, be healed and behold, hear, hearing.

People are hearing right now. If you, if you have ears, you should hear. We're not even to the

David part really yet. We just got the reference to Goliath. The rest of the story is coming.

So that's done. So the Holy Spirit comes in again, David. Now you see

David, all his brothers, they were allowing the enemy,

Goliath, this huge nine foot giant to taunt them and say, you're not going to make it and you're suicidal and you've been bullied and something's wrong with you.

And they stood there every day, week after week. But then one day there was a. Yeah, that's a weird telling of the story of David and Goliath, by the way, the text itself is found in the prophet first Samuel.

Let's take a look at it and work our way through it, shall we?

Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle and they gathered at Succoth, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Succoth and Ezekiel in Ephes Damim.

And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and encamped in the Valley of Elah and drew up in line of battle against the

Philistines and the Philistines stood on the mountain on one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side with a valley between them.

And there came out of the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits in a span.

He had a helmet of bronze on his head and he was armed with a coat of mail and the weight of the coat was 5000 shekels of bronze and he had bronze armor on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.

The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam and his spear's head weighed 600 shekels of iron, and his shield -bearer went before him.

He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, Why have you come out to draw up for battle?

Am I not a Philistine and are you not servants of Saul?

Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants, but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.

And the Philistines said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day.

Give me a man that we may fight together. When Saul and all of Israel heard these words of the

Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Now a little bit of a note here.

So this is type and shadow stuff going on here, and I would point out that David has just made his appearance on the scene just previously to this account where he was anointed the king of Israel, but he's not yet reigning king of Israel.

And so God has chosen David to replace Saul as king, and we'll note that Jesus Christ himself is a descendant of David.

We read in the opening chapter of the book of Romans, Paul writes, it says,

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the

Holy Scriptures, concerning his son, who was descended from David according to the flesh, and was declared to be the son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead,

Jesus Christ our Lord. So you'll note, if you were to do just a word search in the

Gospels themselves, just kind of keying in on the four books, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and did a search for David, it comes up with regularity, let's just say that, at least 35 accounts within the four

Gospels referencing David in one way or another. So you'll note that Matthew chapter 1 verse 1 says, the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham, in fact, when we look at the genealogy of Jesus, there's kind of like two high -water marks,

David and Abraham. And it's important to note that one of the things that God promised to David, that one of his descendants,

David's descendants, would sit on the throne of David forever, and ever, and ever, and ever.

And so that's a reference to Jesus Christ, he is the son of David, who ascends the throne of David and will rule and reign forever, the son of David.

So you'll note that's kind of an important thing. And then, you know, so all the generations from Abraham to David were 14, this is

Matthew 1, you know, were 14 generations from David to abortion, deportation to Babylon, 14 generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to Christ, 14 generations.

That's the way Mark divides these things up. And then we'll note, then, that in Matthew's nativity narrative, when the angel

Gabriel appears to Joseph, he calls him Joseph, son of David.

Now, although Joseph is not Christ's earthly father, he is his legal father. And so this has a whole lot of stuff going on.

And Jesus himself is a direct descendant of David, coming down through his mother as well, but that's more of the

Lucan genealogy, but you get the idea there. So over and again, in fact, you know, when people cry out to Jesus, so there was a

Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon, she came out and was crying, have mercy on me,

O Lord, son of David, my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon. And then, you know,

Lord, have mercy on us, son of David. You know, so over and again, when people are calling out to Jesus, they will refer to him as the son of David.

After the feeding of the 5 ,000 in the book of John, the feeding of the 5 ,000, what ended up happening is that people were wondering, could this be the son of David?

And they wanted to make Jesus king by force, kind of a fascinating thing.

So all of that being said, the fact that Jesus is the son of David is a big deal. But I want you to consider this then, and that is that when you get to the account of David and Goliath, what many theologians refer to as the scarlet thread, this is the bloodline of Christ, had come to David and no further.

The next person who, you know, who will be the next in the bloodline and the direct descendants of Christ is going to be

Solomon, and he's not going to be born until much later in David's life.

So all of that being said, when David steps then onto the field of battle, let's just say that it's not merely him stepping onto the field of battle, that his unborn great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson,

Jesus, is also stepping onto the battlefield. And that's kind of the point. So over and again, when people read the story of David and Goliath, they read it like it's an inspirational story.

Oh, what is the Goliath that you are facing? Answer, the devil, okay, the actual for real devil.

You see, we were born under the dominion of darkness, under the tyranny of the devil himself.

And can you or I on our own power defeat such a foe?

No, not at all. In fact, let me read these comforting words from the book of Colossians, Colossians chapter 1.

And in the opening chapter of Colossians, there's these beautiful words where Paul is sending words of encouragement to the

Christians in the congregation at Colossae. And so he says this, I'll start in verse 9 for our context.

And so, from the day that we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner that is worthy of the

Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might, for all endurance, patience with joy.

Give thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

He has delivered us from the dominion or the domain of darkness. He has transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved

Son in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. Notice that Christ is the one who has delivered us from the dominion of darkness, ruled, if you would, by the devil himself.

So the idea here is that when you look at the types and shadows, and you'll note that David exemplifies a lot, and I mean a lot of the characteristics of Christ, but not only that, he is the pinnacle archetypal example of King Jesus in the types and shadows in the

Old Testament. You know, he's a man after God's own heart, with the exception of that whole Bathsheba and Uriah the

Hittite affair thing. But you get the idea. So David himself is a sinner in need of the forgiveness of his sins.

So here's the idea then. When you read stories like this, do not narcissistically make yourself the hero.

You're not. So when somebody in the scarlet line, the genetic line of the

Messiah, steps onto the pages of Scripture, especially in battle like this, you'll note that something messianic is going on here.

This is a story that is going to ultimately demonstrate or be demonstrated in Christ's defeat of the devil himself.

Now, let me give you a text to kind of help out here, because I think you can see then how this works in the types and the shadows.

All the way back in the book of Genesis, Genesis chapter 3, where the serpent has deceived our first parents.

They've now eaten of the fruit of the tree that's in the midst of the garden, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God has now summoned Adam, Eve, and the serpent to stand before him, and he's handing out curses.

And so let's consider the curse that the serpent, who is animated in this particular story by the devil himself, the curse that he receives from God.

So Yahweh Elohim said to the serpent, this is Genesis 3 .14, because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all the beasts of the field.

On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring, singular, which is pointing to Jesus.

Jesus is the offspring of a woman, not a man and a woman. It's important to note that. So between your offspring and hers, he shall bruise your head.

Other translations might say he will crush your head. It's a mortal wound that you will receive from this seed of the woman.

And you shall bruise his heel. So note that the crushing of the head, the bruising of the head is a big deal regarding the curse.

And so this then becomes what people call the first gospel, the Proto -Ewangelion, the promise that God would send a deliverer, the seed of the woman who would conquer and defeat

Satan. So there's kind of your setup for all of this. All of that being said then, if you must locate yourself in the story of David and Goliath, let me give you a good place to locate yourself, one that will not do violence to the text and rob

Christ of his glory. All right? You and I, we are part of the armies of Israel.

We are standing there on the field of battle. And out comes Goliath, who is a stand in for the devil, challenging and defying the armies of the living

God. And what are we doing? We are all wetting ourselves. Our knees are knocking.

We are looking down at the ground, kicking stones and kicking up dust and refusing.

We know that we stand no chance against Goliath. If you're going to find yourself in the story, that's where you belong.

That's where I belong. Because Christ is the one who defeats the devil. He's the one who defeats

Goliath. Not you. Not me. So now,

David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem and Judah. Note here, the reference to Bethlehem, I should sit there and go, you know, that kind of reminds me about Jesus, oh, little town of Bethlehem and stuff.

Right. That's the point. So Ephrathite of Bethlehem and Judah, named

Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul, the man was already old, advanced in years. The three oldest sons of Jesse followed

Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to battle were Eliab, the firstborn, the next to him,

Abinadab, the third, Shammah. David was the youngest. The three oldest, eldest, followed

Saul. But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

For 40 days, the Philistine came forward and took his stand. Morning and evening.

Now, note here, 40 days. All right.

I can think of another account that has to do with 40 days. You think of Jesus's temptation in the wilderness.

How long was that? 40 days. How long was Israel in their wilderness wandering?

40 years. So oftentimes, you'll note that when the number 40 shows up in a time like this, it is usually a time of testing, a time of temptation, a time to test the mettle of a person.

And over again, you'll note that the children of Israel in their 40 years of wilderness wanderings, they had no mettle.

No. They constantly fell flat. So for 40 days, 40 nights, this

Philistine's coming out and defying the armies of the living God. And the army's not fighting. They're freaking out because this is a mano a mano, man -to -man combat, winner -take -all kind of thing.

And nobody can defeat Goliath. Nobody can.

So Jesse said to David, his son, take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, these 10 loaves.

Carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers. Also take these 10 cheeses to the commander of their thousands so see if your brothers are well and bring some token from them.

Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah fighting with the

Philistines. David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him.

And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line shouting the war cry.

Kind of futile, if you ask me. But Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.

And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.

And as he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the

Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him. All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.

And the men of Israel said, have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy

Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.

Now, a little bit of a note here. Jesus, in defeating the devil, is also given a bride, the bride of Christ.

That is the church. So note here, there's some fun things kind of in the types and shadows that you can easily point to Jesus here at.

All right? So all right, let's keep going here. So the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches, give him his daughter, make his father's house free in Israel.

And David said to the man who stood by him, what shall be done for the man who kills the

Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised

Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? So you know,

David already is a man of faith. All right? So the people answered him in the same way.

So shall it be done to the man who kills him. Now, Eliab, his eldest brother, heard when he spoke to the men.

And Eliab's anger was kindled against David. And he said, why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?

I know your presumption and the evil of your heart. For you've come down to see the battle.

And David said, what have I done now? Was it not but a word? And he turned away from him toward another and spoke.

And in the same way, the people answered him again as before. So you know, David here is kind of riling up the people.

What will be done for the man who defeats this Philistine? So he does that three times.

So when the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul. And he sent for him.

And David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with the

Philistine. And Saul said to David, you're not able to go against this

Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth. And he has been a man of war from his youth.

But David said to Saul, your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion or a bear and took a lamb from the flock,

I went after him. And I struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me,

I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has struck down both lions and bears.

And this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living

God. And David said, Yahweh, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this

Philistine. And Saul said to David, go, and Yahweh be with you.

So then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail.

David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. So then

David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them. So David put them off. And he took his staff in his hand, and he chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd's pouch.

His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine. Now, this is the part where oftentimes when you hear bad preaching on this text, people will say, you need to get your five smooth stones.

And of course, you think about it, go, what are my five smooth stones here?

How am I supposed to? So I've got to defeat my Goliath. Right, check,

OK. Forget the fact that Saul didn't defeat his Goliath. Eliab didn't defeat his

Goliath. Abinadab didn't defeat his Goliath. Neither did Shammah. Neither did any of the members of the army of Israel defeat their

Goliaths. David did. The one who is the great, great, great, great grandfather of the

Messiah, Jesus, he did. So when somebody says, you need to get your five smooth stones to defeat your

Goliath, and then ask the question, what are your five smooth stones? This is nonsense. This is ridiculous. Now, I'm going to tell you how the early church fathers understood this text.

When they read about the five smooth stones, they clearly saw that this was a type and shadow, symbolic story that pointed to Jesus.

And so in counting up the number five, they said that Christ, our

Lord, defeated the devil by the five smooth stones, which are his wounds.

Work with me here for a second. Jesus, his hands, both of them, were pierced.

And both of his feet were pierced. That's four of Christ's wounds.

The fifth is the sword that was thrust into his side. Now, I understand that that's allegory.

But it's good allegory in that sense. It's pointing us to Christ. You see, Christ did defeat the devil by his five wounds.

That's not a bad way to put it. So that's how the ancient church read this story.

It was never about you or I defeating the devil or our Goliaths.

It was always about Christ, who defeated the devil for us, to free us, and to give us salvation and hope, to deliver us from the dominion of darkness, from the fear of death and condemnation of the law and the wrath of God that we've so earned.

And so, again, if you're going to put yourself in the story, you're on the sidelines. And you're terrified.

But Jesus has just stepped onto the battlefield in the loins of King David, the anointed but not yet reigning

King of Israel at this point. So he took five smooth stones from the brook, put them in his shepherd's pouch.

His sling was in his hand. He approached the Philistine. The Philistine moved forward and came near to David and his shield bearer in front of him.

And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.

And the Philistine said to David, am I a dog that you come to me with sticks?

And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The Philistine said to David, come to me and I'll give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.

So then David said to the Philistine, you come to me with a sword and with a spear and a javelin.

But I come to you in the name of Yahweh Sabaoth, the

Lord of armies. The God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied. This day,

Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. Now that's an important bit of all this. Who is

David saying is going to win this battle? The Lord, Yahweh.

God is going to win this battle. And David isn't the one who defeated Goliath. God was.

That's kind of the important point. So this day, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand.

I will strike you down and cut off your head. And he will, by the way, which again, is kind of like a type and shadow prefiguring of the mortal wound that the devil will give, that will receive at the hands of Christ when he defeats him on the cross.

OK, you kind of get the idea. So let's see here.

I come against you in the name of Yahweh Sabaoth, the God of armies. This day, the Lord will deliver you, and I will strike you down, and I will cut off your head.

I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a

God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh saves, not with sword and spear.

Man, and Yahweh, Yahshua, Yahweh saves.

And so you can see it. It's right here. No wonder this is a type and shadow of Christ. This is a picture of the salvation that God gives.

Salvation belongs to the Lord. The Lord saves. He doesn't do it with sword and spear, for the battle is the

Lord's, and he will give you into our hand. And indeed, the battle is the Lord's, and the

Lord did defeat the devil, and the Lord has saved us.

Repent and trust in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. So when the

Philistine rose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the

Philistine. David put his hand in his bag, took out a stone, slung it, and struck the

Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

What a completely lame battle. It was like, you know, whoosh, whoosh, pew, bonk.

It lasted all of, what, 30 seconds? He didn't even make it a round two.

The end. Definitely the Lord is the one who won this battle. So David prevailed over the

Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David, so then

David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it.

When the Philistine saw that their champion was dead, they fled. And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the

Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded

Philistines fell on the way from Shaarim as far as Gath and Ekron.

And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp. And David took the head of the

Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

So there you go. It's a type and shadow pointing to God's salvation won by Christ.

The Lord won the battle that day through David. And salvation belongs to the

Lord, for the battle is his. And that really is the punchline of this entire account.

It's when he says, the Lord says, Yahweh Yahshua, he saves, not with sword and spear, for the battle is the

Lord's, and he will give you into our hand. That's the point of the text, and it's not about you defeating your

Goliath. It's about the fact that Christ has defeated your Goliath for you in order to save you.

So you can rest. You can relax. You don't have to defeat any giants. Christ has defeated them for you.

That's the point. Now, all of that being said, let's go back to this revival over at Crank's church and see what he does with this.

I'll back this up just a little bit. Giant, to taunt them and say you're not going to make it, and you're suicidal, and you've been bullied, and something's wrong with you.

And they stood there every day, week after week. But then one day, there was a little boy named David. But David, he had never been to battle.

He had always been on the backside of the hill writing songs like, he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.

A lion would come, and he would kill it. And he'd be like, he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high, shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.

I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge, my fortress, and my God, and him will I trust. Oh, I thank you, Lord. Oh, yeah.

He maketh me lie down in green pasture. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no. Here comes another enemy. He's a killer. He's a killer.

Weird account here. Yeah. I guess this is the authorized crank edition.

I don't know. So then he went out to battle, but he had been in the glory. And his dad didn't bring him to be the king, and nobody acknowledged him to be on stage.

And he looks like the most unlikely, unfavored one. But no one acknowledged him to be on stage.

Wow. I mean, this is just a complete and abysmal missing of the whole point of the story of David.

The salvation belongs to the Lord. The battle belongs to the Lord. Yahweh saves. So now this is just a mess.

God can find you anywhere when you're hidden. I'm talking about a raise. I'm talking.

God can find you anywhere when you're hidden. Let me back that up just a little bit, because this has nothing to do at all with the account of David and Goliath.

Him to be on stage. And he looks like the most unlikely, unfavored one. But God can find you anywhere when you're hidden.

I'm talking about a raise. I'm talking about. Don't get tired of me. I want to party all night. It's Jay's party.

Don't, don't stop. It's your party, Jay. So he goes up and he said, is this guy been talking about you guys like this forever?

David looked at him and he disdained it, because the anointing of the Holy Ghost rose up in him. And he said.

Where does it say the anointing of the Holy Ghost arose up in him? Ah, you come to me with spear and a sword, cancer.

You come. Cancer? It was Goliath. You see what he's doing here? To me with spear and a sword, suicide.

But I come to you. He had been to the right church. He had been in the glory. I come to you in the name of the

Lord. And he picked up five, five, five smooth stones. What is today's date?

He picked up five smooth stones. I assure you, the five smooth stones have nothing to do with November 5, 2019.

And he picked it up. And he said, today I will feed your uncircumcised, your non -covenant,

God -fearing soul to the fowls of the air. And when he released it out of his hand, he just released it in faith.

And like a heat -seeking missile, it started going. Come on, somebody. It started going and going.

And it hit Goliath in the head. Come here. It was big like this. Get down on your face.

It looked like this, big. And he told those people who were being punked.

He said, notice, you will never have to face it again, because his face now, it will never touch you again.

You will never face alcohol addiction again. Yeah, talk about a miserable twisting of this text.

And also now making promises for God that God didn't make. You, come on, somebody. You will never face lack again.

You'll never be broke another day. You'll never be broke another day. Yeah, God hasn't promised that either.

I want to back that up. Listen again. Again, you will never face alcohol addiction again.

You, come on, somebody. You will never face lack again. You'll never be broke another day in your life.

Just because David Crank twisted God's word and shouted these things out in the microphone, and in the middle of a really weird, bizarre, emotional ritual that's going on there at Crank's church, doesn't make any of these promises true, that God has to honor them.

Thank you, Rodney. But then, after all that happened, he got the king's daughter.

It was his prize. They said, if you kill him, notice there's always a reward for obeying the

Holy Ghost. This is weird. I said, there's always a reward for obeying the

Holy Ghost. You wonder why you don't have a big church? You don't obey God. Yeah, so if you have a small church, the reason why you have a small church is because you don't obey

God. Yeah, Jesus said, broad is the road that leads to destruction.

Narrow is the path that leads to life. Wow, that was bad. So hopefully, at least you can see the dichotomy.

And one takes a look at the story and looks how it connects to Christ.

The other is just narcissism and then makes promises for God that he didn't make. It all creates a kind of anxiety in you because I just have to ask, how good are you at defeating your

Goliath? They may be plural. How good are you at defeating your

Goliaths? Yeah, I haven't defeated one of them.

The thanks be to God that the battle belongs to the Lord and that the Lord saves and that the

Lord has defeated the devil and he's delivered us from the dominion of darkness, forgiven us. And there's a day coming when he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

And we will hear from him, well done, good and faithful servant, not because we're good in and of ourselves.

Remember, even our good works are still tainted with enough sin that they would send us to hell.

But instead note that in Christ, Christ has won all of this for us, given us salvation as a gift.

And there is a day coming when there will be no cancer. There will be no lack.

And that day is coming in the new earth when Jesus returns and makes all things new.

In the meantime, we are made to suffer. We are persecuted. And we still, if Christ tarries, have a physical death to go through.

But Christ has defeated the devil and death. And he has freed us.

And we are in him. And when he returns, we will be just like him. So you get the idea.

The battle belongs to the Lord. That's the point of David and Goliath, not you defeating your giants.

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